Season 7 of Supernatural was announced by The CW Television Network, renewed for another season on April 26, 2011. It is on The CW on Friday nights at 9PM EST and premiered on September 23, 2011, and the season finale aired on May 18, 2012. This was the first season of Supernatural to have 23 episodes, instead of 22.
Season Summary
In season seven, the events take place right after the angel Castiel absorbed the souls of Purgatory declares himself as the new God. And the "mutated angel" goes around the planet to try and finish his "work". But eventually, thanks to a little bit of help from the Horseman Death, Winchesters convince the angel to return all the souls back to Purgatory. But Castiel manages to return all but the souls of some older creatures. Something in which the Winchesters will find themselves in an increasingly sinister, changing landscape, as they go up against this new foe, which is unlike anything they've ever fought before: the Leviathans, the very first beasts created by God Himself, but were then locked away in Purgatory for being too destructive. The brothers will find their old tricks, weapons and hiding places all rendered useless. All they'll have is each other. And the certainty that, like the last of the cowboy outlaws, whatever they face, they're not going down without a fight.
Season seven finds Dean and Sam reeling from the loss of Bobby and without the help of Castiel. Sam's violent memories of Hell threaten to overtake him, threatening not just his life, but his brother's as well. Meanwhile, Dean struggles under the weight of a secret that threatens to tear them apart. And even as the brothers traverse the backroads of America, hunting things that go bump in the night, something is coming for them. They are about to face an enemy more cunning and adaptable than any they've ever fought. As the landscape around them becomes increasingly treacherous, the tools they've come to rely upon will be stripped away. Our heroes, like so many outlaws before them, will find themselves utterly outmatched and outgunned and pushed to their limites, with no one to rely on but each other.
As the season progresses the Leviathans become a much greater threat where Sam and Dean are forced to form an alliance with a ressurected Castiel, Meg, Crowley, a ghostly Bobby Singer and the prophet Kevin Tran to defeat the Leviathans and their leader Dick Roman with a weapon forged by God Himself. Bobby begins to turn into a vengeful spirit forcing Sam and Dean to destroy him. Dean manages to kill Dick but the after effects cause him and Castiel to end up in Purgatory while Crowley abducts Meg and Kevin and with Bobby dead Sam is completely alone...
Season Cast
Main
- Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester (23/23)
- Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester (23/23)
Supporting
- Jim Beaver as Bobby Singer (12/23)
- James Patrick Stuart as Dick Roman (6/23)
- Misha Collins as Castiel (5/23)
- Mark A. Sheppard as Crowley (5/23)
- Benito Martinez as Edgar (5/23)
- Mark Pellegrino as Lucifer (Hallucination) (4/23)
- Kevin R. McNally as Frank Devereaux (4/23)
- Rachel Miner as Meg (3/23)
- Osric Chau as Kevin Tran (3/23)
- Cameron Bancroft as Dr. Gaines (3/23)
- Kim Rhodes as Jody Mills (3/23)
- Sean Owen Roberts as Chet (3/23)
- Olivia Cheng as Susan (3/23)
- DJ Qualls as Garth Fitzgerald IV (2/23)
- Larissa Gomes as Louise (2/23)
- Khaira Ledeyo as Linda Tran (2/23)
- James Marsters as Don Stark (1/23)
- Charisma Carpenter as Maggie Stark (1/23)
- Alona Tal as Jo Harvelle (1/23)
- Julian Richings as Death (1/23)
- Steven Williams as Rufus Turner (1/23)
- Carrie Anne Flemming as Karen Singer (1/23)
- Felicia Day as Charlie Bradbury (1/23)
Episode List: 2011-2012
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Meet the New Boss | Writer: Sera Gamble | Director: Phil Sgriccia | 09/23/11 | #127 701 |
| Castiel doesn't kill Sam, Dean and Bobby but warns them not to interfere in his business. Assuming his new role as God, Castiel sets out to right some of the wrongs in the world. Dean decides they should bind Death and order him to stop Castiel, but the former angel is one step ahead of them, leaving Dean to face a very angry Death. Meanwhile Sam struggles to deal with the broken wall in his head. | |||||
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Hello, Cruel World | Writer: Ben Edlund | Director: Guy Bee | 9/30/2011 | #128 702 |
| Castiel continues to struggle with the burdens that come with his new-fangled power. The broken wall in Sam's head causes him to have hallucinations, and he has difficulty discerning what's real and what's not. Bobby worries that Dean is beginning to stumble under the weight of fighting Castiel and keeping an eye on Sam. | |||||
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The Girl Next Door | Writer: Andrew Dabb & Daniel Loflin | Director: Jensen Ackles | 10/07/11 | #129 703 |
| Dean is furious after Sam disappears to follow a lead on a case with clues that are identical to a case Sam solved as a kid. The monster turns out to be Amy, who has been killing low-life thugs and taking their brains for dinner, the same monster Sam found as a kid. | |||||
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Defending Your Life | Writer: Adam Glass | Director: Robert Singer | 10/14/2011 | #130 704 |
| Sam and Dean investigate a string of gruesome murders and discover the Egyptian god Osiris is behind the deaths. The vengeful god is putting people on trial for their past mistakes and killing them if found guilty. Osiris hones in on Dean’s guilt and decides he’s the next to stand trial. Sam steps in as Dean’s lawyer, but both brothers are unprepared when Osiris calls an unexpected witness Jo. | |||||
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Shut Up, Dr. Phil | Writer: Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming | Director: Phil Sgriccia | 10/21/2011 | #131 705 |
| Sam and Dean meet Maggie Stark, a witch who has unleashed her wrath on a small town, resulting in numerous deaths. Sam and Dean track down her husband, Donald, to see if he can help. Donald tells the brothers that Maggie is mad at him for having an affair and is taking it out on the townspeople. | |||||
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Slash Fiction | Writer: Robbie Thompson | Director: John F. Showalter | 10/28/2011 | #132 706 |
| Sam and Dean are once again on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list when two Leviathans clone the brothers and go on a killing spree. The subject of a nationwide manhunt, Sam and Dean need to drop off the grid so Bobby sends them to Frank Deveraux, a quirky surveillance expert, for help. Meanwhile, Bobby continues to search for a way to kill the Leviathans, or at least slow them down, so the real Winchesters can stop their evil doppelgangers. | |||||
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The Mentalists | Writer: Ben Acker & Ben Blacker | Director: Mike Rohl | 11/4/2011 | #133 707 |
| Sam and Dean investigate the gruesome murders of resident mediums in Lily Dale, the most “psychic” town in America. They discover that an angry spirit is killing off the psychics one by one, but in a town full of people who claim to be summoning spirits, they have a little trouble identifying the medium controlling the ghost. | |||||
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Season Seven, Time for a Wedding! | Writer: Andrew Dabb & Daniel Loflin | Director: Tim Andrew | 11/11/2011 | #134 708 |
| While on a hunt, Sam runs into someone from his past and a confrontation ensues. Meanwhile, Dean reluctantly teams up with a quirky, laid-back hunter named Garth, when he finds himself in a situation that he just cannot explain. | |||||
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How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters | Writer: Ben Edlund | Director: Guy Bee | 11/18/2011 | #135 709 |
| Sam, Dean and Bobby become actual hunters, in the true sense of the word, when they set up camp in a New Jersey state park to track a creature that has been attacking people in the woods. The townsfolk claim it is the real Jersey Devil. Meanwhile, Dean is beyond thrilled to find a Biggerson's restaurant in town, but is devastated when he discovers the restaurant's special sandwich seems to be making people crazy. | |||||
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Death's Door | Writer: Sera Gamble | Director: Robert Singer | 12/02/2011 | #136 710 |
| As Sam and Dean race the clock on a high-stakes mission, Bobby seeks the help of an unlikely old friend to solve one of the most personal cases of his life. | |||||
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Adventures In Babysitting | Writer: Adam Glass | Director: Jeannot Szwarc | 01/06/2012 | #137 711 |
| Still reeling after what happened to Bobby, Dean becomes dangerously obsessed over finding a way to take down Dick Roman. Meanwhile, Sam decides to help a teenage girl look for her father, a hunter who has gone missing. Sam traces his last steps to a truck stop where the help turns out not to be so friendly. | |||||
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Time After Time | Writer: Robbie Thompson | Director: Phil Sgriccia | 01/13/2012 | #138 712 |
| Sam and Dean tangle with the God of Time, who sends Dean back to 1944, where he is immediately arrested by none other than the one and only Eliot Ness. While trying to figure out how to retrieve his brother, Sam is surprised by the reappearance of an old friend. | |||||
| File:713.jpg | The Slice Girls | Writer: Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner | Director: Jerry Wanek | 02/03/2012 | #139 713 |
| Sam and Dean investigate a case where the victims' hands and feet have been severed and each have been branded with a strange symbol. While Sam does some research at a local university, Dean heads to one of his favorite places to investigate - the town bar. Dean strikes up a conversation with a local named Lydia, and the two go back to her place. Sam discovers the symbol on the bodies is a sign of Amazon warriors. | |||||
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Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie | Writer: Andrew Dabb & Daniel Loflin | Director: Mike Rohl | 02/10/12 | #140 714 |
| Sam is forced to confront a childhood fear when a case takes him and Dean to Kansas to investigate Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie, a local pizza chain that hosts children's birthday parties. Sam and Dean discover that the victims' children had recently been to the restaurant and drawn a picture of their worst fear, which then came to life to kill their parent. While Dean confronts the man behind the magic, Sam is left to deal with some very angry clowns. | |||||
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Repo Man | Writer: Ben Edlund | Director: Thomas J. Wright | 02/17/2012 | #141 715 |
| Four years ago, Sam and Dean helped a woman named Nora exorcise a demon that was systematically killing women in a small town. They managed to save a postal worker, Jeffrey, while vanquishing the demon, but now it seems the black-eyed monster has reared his ugly head and returned for a second helping. The brothers visit Jeffrey, who has been locked in a psych ward since the incident, to see if he can remember any of the demon’s plans while he was possessed. | |||||
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Out With The Old | Writer: Robert Singer & Jenny Klein. | Director: John F. Showalter | 3/16/2012 | #142 716 |
| After a ballerina is found dead from dancing herself to death, Sam and Dean look into the case and discover the ballet slippers she wore were cursed. When Dean accidentally touches the shoes, the power of the curse starts to take hold of him. | |||||
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The Born-Again Identity | Writer: Sera Gamble | Director: Robert Singer | 03/23/2012 | #143 717 |
| Lucifer drives Sam to the breaking point and Sam ends up in a mental hospital. Desperate to save his brother, Dean calls every hunter he knows for help. One of the hunters gives him the name of a healer who turns out to have a very familiar face. | |||||
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Party On, Garth | Writer: Adam Glass | Director: Phil Sgriccia | 3/30/12 | #144 718 |
| Dean is surprised when he gets a call from Garth asking for the brothers’ help on a case. Sam and Dean discover they are battling a Shojo, a Japanese creature sent to seek revenge on enemies. The worst part about fighting a Shojo? You can only see it when you’re drunk. | |||||
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Of Grave Importance | Writer: Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming | Director: Tim Andrew | 04/20/2012 | #145 719 |
| Sam and Dean get a call from Annie Hawkins, an old hunter friend, asking for help on a case. When they arrive in town, they find out Annie has disappeared. They trace her last whereabouts to an old abandoned house that is haunted by a powerful ghost. | |||||
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The Girl With The Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo | Writer: Robbie Thompson | Director: John MacCarthy | 04/27/2012 | #146 720 |
| Dick Roman acquires Frank's hard drive that contains sensitive information about the Winchesters and gives it to an unsuspecting brilliant hacker named Charlie telling her she has 48 hours to crack the firewall or she is fired. Sam and Dean are tipped off that Dick has the hard drive and race to get to Charlie before she breaks the code. Meanwhile, Bobby tries to help the brothers, but his rage towards Dick for killing him starts to get in the way. | |||||
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Reading Is Fundamental | Writer: Ben Edlund | Director: Ben Edlund | 05/04/2012 | #147 721 |
| Meg calls Dean and Sam and tells them Castiel is awake and talking. Meanwhile, a teenager named Kevin gets hit by a bolt of lightning and is turned into a reluctant prophet. Sam and Dean believe Kevin holds the key to defeating the Leviathans but must fight off two Angels who want him for their own purposes. | |||||
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There Will Be Blood | Writer: Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin | Director: Guy Bee | 05/11/2012 | #148 722 |
| In order to defeat Dick Roman and the Leviathans, Sam and Dean must locate three key items. Castiel helps with one but for the last objects, the Winchesters must face two of their strongest opponents - an Alpha Vampire and Crowley. Meanwhile, Bobby tries out a new ghost trick that ends up being very dangerous. | |||||
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Survival of the Fittest | Writer: Sera Gamble | Director: Robert Singer | 05/18/2012 | #149 723 |
| Dean and Sam prepare for battle with Dick Roman. Dick's in the final phase of his plan and the Winchesters must team up with Castiel, Bobby, Meg and Kevin, the prophet, to stop him. However, Dick is one of the smartest enemies they've ever faced so it's a mind game to see who can keep the upper hand. | |||||
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